What I meant was pretty simple. At the beginning of the series McGregor's biggest complaints were that farming is an exhausting work, and that the USA was just a few miles away, while Galtier bitched about "talk white" racism and his horse not ever answering him. Neither mentioned anything, as far as I can recall, about state-sponsored abuses and tyrannies of the government in Ottowa.
I see. Well that is a good point.
Well, I would say the USA is the most free out of the countries
listed. I didn't vote yet because Trotsky made a good point about Canada, so I'm still not totally sure, and what about other Biritsh dominions? Well, I'll focus on the ones listed for know.
In terms of all the counties, the USA is a democratic nation. Even with the Remembrance Era, it's still a free country, just a very patriotic one. Now granted its life's not great for lower class people, most immigrants, blacks, mormons and Native Americans, but no country is spotless by any means. The country is a democracy by the standards of the time.
Second place would go to Great Britian. Again, a democratic nation, just this time a constitutional monarchy. Of course Britain is second because of her imperial colonies, where for many of the natives, life isn't very free at all. The same could be said for the third place holder, France. Democratic government, but a little unstable so a notch below Britain, and of course the colonies again as mentioned above. I should say that all of these counties governments are near identical to OTL, save for the US and CS of course.
Fourth place is between Germany and Japan. Germany has an elected government, and here are restrictins on the Kaiser, but the government is very autocratic still, like OTL. Japan had an elected government, but I don't know how much "freer" it was than Germany IOTL.
Now we get into the less free, with fifth place being the CSA. It had an elected government, is a quote un quote "democracy", but is by no means "free". It has a huge black population it openly disenfranchises and keeps from climbing up the social ladder. The CSA is a democracy In the sense that OTL apartheid era South Africa was, a democracy only for a relatively small group. I think that the Blacks in the CSA outnumbered the whites as well, thought by no means to the extent blacks outnumbered whites in OTL South Africa.
Sixth palce is between Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. Both were autocratic, and had a ton of minorities who were purposely kept out of power. I don't think there were elections in the Ottoman Empire. I think there were in AH, but they might have been voting by for nobility and such.
Lastly is Russia. Autocratic, tons of repressed minorities again, barely any elected government, antisemetic pogroms, widespread poverty etc. etc. If you weren't part of the nobility, I image life was ranged from "meh" to god awful.
